Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
September 1987 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1987A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
- 2nd September 1987Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
- 3rd September 1987Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
- 4th September 1987A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
- 5th September 1987A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 6th September 1987A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
- 7th September 1987A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 8th September 1987Write 3/5 as a decimal.
- 9th September 1987Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 10th September 1987Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 11th September 1987Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).
- 12th September 1987Simplify sqrt(75) - sqrt(12), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(3).
- 13th September 1987Work out 9.6 divided by 0.4.
- 14th September 1987Calculate 47 + 36.
- 15th September 1987Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 16th September 1987State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 17th September 1987State whether sound is a transverse wave or a longitudinal wave.
- 18th September 1987Name the organ that produces bile, which helps to digest fats.
- 19th September 1987State whether melting ice is a physical change or a chemical change, and give a reason.
- 20th September 1987Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 21st September 1987On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 22nd September 1987A guide tells the group "we're nearly there" in a steady voice, but keeps glancing anxiously at the darkening sky. Explain what the contrast between his words and his glances suggests.
- 23rd September 1987You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
- 24th September 1987Give one feature, other than headings, that a factual magazine article might use to help organise information for the reader.
- 25th September 1987What is emotive language, and why might a writer use it in a leaflet about ocean pollution?
- 26th September 1987Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: 'The storm was BIG.'
- 27th September 1987Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The doors opened, and passengers spilled onto the platform."
- 28th September 1987Rewrite this sentence, replacing the vague capitalised word with a more precise alternative, keeping the meaning: "The market was NOISY."
- 29th September 1987A bag contains only red and yellow beads. The probability of picking a red bead is 0.65. If there are 140 beads in total, how many are yellow?
- 30th September 1987y is directly proportional to x. When x = 6, y = 15. Work out y when x = 10.